Re: EXPECT Utility

From: at (R.Mariotti)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:44:51 GMT

    On 29 Sep 2003 12:59:24 -0700, haisiva@yahoo.com (Krishna) wrote:

    >Hi,
    >
    >I am trying to pass a password which is having special characters like
    >$$.
    >
    >If I pass a password like "test$$12" as a new password, the program
    >cannot able to set the password as "test$$12". How to nullify the
    >special meaning of "$$" while passing the argument. Here is my
    >program.
    >
    >#!/usr/bin/expect -f
    >
    >spawn /usr/bin/passwd
    >
    >set oldpas [lindex $argv 0]
    >set newpas [lindex $argv 1]
    >
    >expect "Old password:"
    >send "$oldpas\r"
    >expect "New password:"
    >send "$newpas\r"
    >expect "new password:"
    >send "$newpas\r"
    >expect eof
    >
    >Thanks in advance for your help.
    >
    >Best Regards
    >Siva.

    When invoking the script and passing your password(s) preceed every
    special character with a backslash "\". This will escape the special
    characters and send them, intact, to the subscript.

    Bob

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